Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having only essential or minimal features; lacking anything extra.

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  • adjective Reduced to essentials; without additional features.

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  • adjective having only essential or minimal features

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Examples

  • This is not, in other words, a stripped-down Broadway-style "Porgy" but a genre-transcending theatrical experience staged in such a way as to shift the emphasis from Gershwin's score to DuBose Heyward's often-underrated libretto.

    The Church on Catfish Row Terry Teachout 2011

  • Witt's homes are built to fit it into the neighborhood with a design and scale he calls "stripped-down modern."

    News 2012

  • If previous decades - the Roaring Twenties and the big-spending Noughties - allowed themselves to play with the idea of stripped-down fashion the Little Black Dress; luxe minimalism, then the aesthetic of 2012 has some parallels with that of 1932.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • If previous decades - the Roaring Twenties and the big-spending Noughties - allowed themselves to play with the idea of stripped-down fashion the Little Black Dress; luxe minimalism, then the aesthetic of 2012 has some parallels with that of 1932.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • Drawing on those service-oriented retail trends, he said he is hoping to insert a new stripped-down hotel category called "essential services" into the highly regimented hotel space.

    New Chapter for Schrager 2011

  • Also the logic follows that your Prism app will load faster, because it is essentially a faster, stripped-down mini-browser (read as: without the bloat ).

    Prism 1.0 Brings Dock/System Tray Integration To Your Webapps | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Belly lox, by tradition, is a cured, but un-smoked salmon—think of it as a stripped-down and saltier cousin to gravlax.

    Holy Smokeds 2011

  • Facing congressional pressure, the agency resurrected the program about a year later, but only as a stripped-down emergency escape vehicle for the space station.

    NASA's Post-Shuttle Space-Exploration Plans Generate Little Excitement Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Two Dozen gleaming, stripped-down Harleys filled the parking lot of a bar called the El Adobe.

    The Riddle of Steel Jason W. Stuart 2011

  • OMB officials initially balked at the cost of NASA's stripped-down development proposal, and then lobbed in additional questions regarding more-expensive options, according to government and industry officials.

    White House Experiences Sticker Shock Over NASA's Plans Andy Pasztor 2011

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